Word: siberia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best Years is a drab little play about a woman who spends the best years of her life taking care of a neurotic mother when she might be enjoying the gayety of a honeymoon in Siberia. So strong is the hold of Mrs. Davis (Jean Adair) on her daughter Cora (Katherine Alexander) that Fred Barton (Harvey Stephens) has to do his courting under her watchful eye. When Cora starts for a dance with him Mrs. Davis collapses in the footlights. During the entire third act Mrs. Davis lies unconscious on a sofa in full view of the audience while other...
...Clair by a broken pump. After visiting Chicago, the ship's next destination was the Pacific Coast. Despite some-what half-hearted denials by Capt. von Gronau, it appeared certain that he would carry on along the approximate route flown last year by the Lindberghs from Alaska to Siberia, the Kuvile Islands, Tokyo, that he would continue around the world to home...
After youthful wanderings his odyssey started at Irkutsk where he was employed as a locksmith on the Trans-Siberian Railway. A chance meeting with two political prisoners who had escaped across northern Siberia made up Author Welzl's mind. That spring he bought a horse and cart, made tracks for the Arctic Ocean alone. Too uneducated to follow maps he followed his nose, and the rivers flowing north...
...return from the whaling trip Traveler Welzl was disembarked, at his own request, on the barren island of New Siberia. He discovered a cave abandoned by Eskimos, dug himself in before the polar storms broke. The winter night descended, the cold stiffened the tossing waves flat. High winter tides exploded the whole ocean's frozen surface into the air, with thunderclaps, bellows, sea-qiiaking crashes. At those sounds many a polar settler has burst out of his cave, run yelling along the shore waving his arms, insane. Traveler Welzl never stirred outside his cave, where the temperature touched 86° below...
...those islands; but the summer influx of gold-miners and coal-miners must have wood. Trader Welzl wangled wood from whaling boats, finally imported provisions from Alaska. Soon he was rich enough to buy a $100,000 share in a trading boat. Tales of his adventures in New Siberia and elsewhere, an account of the Eskimos' extraordinary way of life, his own election, under the jaw-cracking title Moojok-Ojaak, as Chief of New Siberia, wind up his undreamed of, not incredible, romance of fact...